Data Scientist | Financial Services
York (2 days per week onsite)
Salary Up to £70,000 + 15% Bonus + Benefits
Build ML solutions that actually make it into production.
We're supporting a major financial services organisation as they build a brand-new enterprise Data Platform and MLOps capability. This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage and play a key role in shaping how Data Science is delivered across the business.
This isn't a research-only environment. You'll work on real business problems, build machine learning models that drive decision-making, and collaborate closely with engineering teams to see your work deployed and used at scale.
What you'll be doing:
- Partnering with stakeholders to turn business challenges into Data Science solutions
- Exploring, preparing and analysing large, complex datasets
- Building, testing and evaluating machine learning models
- Applying techniques such as regression, classification, clustering and forecasting
- Writing clean, maintainable Python code
- Working alongside ML Engineers to deploy models into production
- Monitoring model performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Helping establish best practices across Data Science, experimentation and model governance
We're looking for:
- Commercial experience as a Data Scientist
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Hands-on experience building Machine Learning models
- Expertise in feature engineering, model evaluation and model selection
- Experience working with large datasets
- Exposure to Azure, AWS or GCP
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience taking models beyond experimentation into production is highly desirable
(No Visa Sponsorship Available)
RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
